Deji Okegbile

JESUS CHRIST THE KING: Renouncing cultural rewrite of Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Christmas

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Nov 28, 2017 | General and Ecumenism |

Christ is King, what does that mean? If Christ is ruler over our lives … then my Nobel Peace Prize is less important than my trying to feed the hungry. If Christ is King, then my invitations to the White House are less important than that I visited those in prison. If Christ is Lord, then my being TIME magazine’s “Man of the Year” is less important than that I tried to love extravagantly, dangerously, with all my being (I Have a Dream, 191) – Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. The idea of Black Friday shopping with crowds swarming into...

INSIGHT TO AMERICAN THANKSGIVING: A Culture of Clothing others.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Nov 25, 2017 | General and Ecumenism |

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. For even though they knew God, they did not honour Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. . . [Romans 1:20-22]. American Thanksgiving Day was primarily a harvest holiday in colonial times in which the colonists offered thanks for a good harvest, sometimes by feasting, sometimes...

LONDON REGENERATION: As the State retreats, the church steps in.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Nov 22, 2017 | Missions and Evangelism |

London, the first great changing city of the modern era is blessed with a myriad of spiritual journeys, from the early days of paganism, bloody Britain, through the dominance of Christianity to the multicultural worship scene of today. With thanks to the fires of Reformation and the 18th century reawakening, the past decades of church decline and moral degeneration invites us to a window of missional opportunity for regeneration and revival. The State may not do God, it is the business, calling responsibility and mission of the church to do God and disciple the people. Edoardo Albert in his...

THE MONARCH’S EXAMPLE OF MARRIAGE: A Death to Self.

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Nov 20, 2017 | General and Ecumenism |

And Christian marriage goes that one step further and says that for those who can grasp it, this relationship between a man and a woman is now a living sign of God’s relation to the world, and of what God thinks about human capacity and dignity. It is a sign telling us that God is to be trusted to be faithful – and that God trusts us to echo that faithfulness – Archbishop Rowan Williams Marriage was God’s idea. God ordained marriage between man and woman before sin entered the world. Marriage is of fundamental importance for children, mothers...

FROM BONNKE TO KOLENDA: A PROVERB TO NIGERIAN CHRISTIAN LEADERS ON SUCCESSION

Posted by Deji Okegbile | Nov 15, 2017 | General and Ecumenism |

International evangelist Reinhard Bonnke believe in the relevance of 2 Kg 2:9-11 as biblical example of incarnational transference of God’s gifts and calling even for today. Bonnke operated on this belief for 35 years in Christ for All Nation ministry. He stepped down in 2010 at age 70 and appointed 29 years old Daniel Kolenda as his successor. Kolenda, a fifth generation preacher left the church he planted with his wife to joined Bonnke ministry in 2006. The testimony of Kolenda according to Bonnke is that ‘anointed must be appointed.’ Seven years ago Bonnke says of Kolenda, “I invited Daniel...